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From: Christoph Wilhelms
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Subject: RE: [VOTE] Ant2 codebase adoption process
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 20:15:03 +0100
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> I believe this was discussed a *very* long time ago. I'm
> pretty sure "Ant 2 won't work with all existing build files"
> was on the website somewhere before I even started *using* Ant...
This has been here a since a short time after I started using ant and
joining this list :-) I think around October/November 2000... I had my
concerns way back when already :-). I think thing changed a bit since then,
because Ant has become something like the "standard for building huge java
applications" since then. IMHO I think it became one of the most successful
and most used Java tools/applications anyways... Hey: We all did well on Ant
1 :-)!
>
>
> If people have perfectly good working build files for Ant 1,
> then they can keep them that way. I'd hope that Ant 1 will
> still be available from the website. It's just that people
> with Ant 1 builds and don't want to convert them to Ant 2
> (which will hopefully be an easy process, if there's a tool
> for it) will have to stick to using Ant 1 and not get the
> benefits from Ant 2.
>
> I don't think that's a major problem, personally.
Oh, I think think it would be good for the general acceptance of Ant2, if -
at least - many of the buildfiles/tasks used in that buildfile will still
work with Ant2 without modifing the xmls.
Which reminds me of another good question: If we break compatibility: Do we
want to maintain Ant 1.x forever (or for ages at last)? I think we will have
Ant 1 and 2 in parallel for a long time if we do so... Just like Tomcat 3.x
and 4... or Probably Apache http 1.x and 2.x .... Lets see ;-)
Cheers,
Chris
P.S.: Sorry for all that smileys :-)
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